[Kde-scm-interest] On Amarok Switching to Git

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dissabte 17 Gener 2009, Ian Monroe va escriure:
> So most Amarok devs use git-svn now, and there's a growing consensus
> that switching to Git would make life easier. So I'd like to request
> assistance and pointers on how to actually go about doing this.
>
> I understand from reading the archives that one thing holding the
> switch to Git back is that its hard to keep track of history of files
> that are copied across projects. Outside of our file browser from
> Kate, Amarok doesn't really have any such files that I know of and
> this isn't important to us. So I don't think this is an issue. I
> understand that otherwise the actual svn->git conversion is a solved
> issue.
>
> Issues that need to be solved:
> * Scripty. Its somewhat of a mystery where it is and how this thing
> works. :) So it just needs to clone the central git repo, and perhaps
> use a stable branch in the future. It should commit the translation
> files back into SVN like it does currently, and make the commits with
> .desktop files available somewhere.

If you have specific questions about scripty you can ask me or come to 
#kde-i18n channel on freenode, there me (tsdgeos), chusslove or pino will 
probably be able to answer your questions (not do the work though probably)

Albert

> *svn externs. We currently have a couple: one is Plasma (which we'll
> remove once we depend on KDE 4.3 I think) and the other is a library
> written by an Amarok dev that could probably be converted into a git
> repo as well. It'd be nice to at least record the history of svn
> externs.
> *Other problems that I don't know about.
>
> So for the first issue I'm guessing I will have to ask the sysadmin
> team. Similarly I'd like to be hosted at git.kde.org; I want to keep
> it very clear that we're still "in KDE."
>
> Hello to folks in Jamaica! :)
>
> Ian
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